Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

["Dina Hornreich" <dina8 AT cox.net>]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Exene Cervenka
America the Beautiful                                    
January 7 – February 11, 2006


DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present EXENE CERVENKA's first New
York exhibition.  On view in America the Beautiful  will be journals
and mixed media collages dating from 1974 through 2005 by one of the
founding members of the seminal Los Angeles punk group, X.  The
exhibition was originally organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art
and guest curators Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan.

The exhibition will feature a selection of journals from the
collection of approximately 100 that CERVENKA has completed over the
past thirty-one years, as well as over twenty collages.  CERVENKA's
journals combine rough drafts of songs and personal reflections
rendered in a baroque calligraphic script with photographs, drawings
and scraps of ephemera found while traveling as a musician. 
Similarly, the collages are created from found materials to form an
interpretative composite portrait of the country she's come to know
through her life experiences on the road.

An icon of Los Angeles's seventies punk scene, EXENE CERVENKA is
known internationally for her work with the critically acclaimed
band, X.  Today she continues her musical career with X as well as in
solo performances and participation in bands such as The Knitters,
Auntie Christ and The Original Sinners.  A visual and spoken word
artist for more than thirty years, CERVENKA has also published four
volumes of poetry.

The exhibition will be on view at DCKT Contemporary, 552 West 24th
Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea.  Hours are 11am to
6pm, Tuesday through Saturday. 

There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, January 7 from
6 – 8 pm.

For further information, please contact Dennis Christie or Ken
Tyburski at the gallery.

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